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Causes and effects of the Columbian Exchange?
Causes: Columbus's voyages, desire for new trade routes. Effects: Exchange of goods, diseases, and cultural mixing.
Causes and effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Causes: Demand for labor in the Americas. Effects: Forced migration, cultural mixing, immense suffering.
What caused the decimation of Native American populations?
Introduction of new diseases from Afro-Eurasia, like smallpox and measles.
What caused the expansion of plantation agriculture?
High demand for cash crops like sugar, tobacco, and cotton in Europe.
What were the effects of plantation agriculture?
Deforestation, soil depletion, strain on water resources, and increased demand for enslaved labor.
What caused the African Diaspora?
The Atlantic Slave Trade and the forced dispersal of African people around the world.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
The forced transportation of millions of Africans to the Americas for labor.
What is the African diaspora?
The dispersal of African people and their culture around the world.
Define the Middle Passage.
The horrific journey across the Atlantic endured by enslaved Africans.
Define plantation economy.
An economy based on agricultural mass production, typically relying on forced labor.
Compare the Columbian Exchange and the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Columbian Exchange: Exchange of goods and diseases. Atlantic Slave Trade: Forced migration of people for labor. Both had massive global consequences.